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COLLECTION OF PIECES from the 18th century.
See original version (French)
188
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COLLECTION OF PIECES from the 18th century.
See original version (French)
Estimate €180 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
COLLECTION OF PIECES from the 18th century. One volume in-8, in its contemporary marbled fawn basane (slight wear but the interior remains fresh). -FABRY de Moncault Autrey. Les Quakers à leur frère V*** (Voltaire), lettres plus philosophiques... que *** sur sa religion et ses livres, etc. London, Paris, 1768. II-108 pp. Rare. The work is addressed to Voltaire and uses the vision of the Quakers in the United States to refute Voltaire's ideas of the Enlightenment and rationalism. Voltaire, in turn, replied to the author with a letter. -[DORAT]. Sélim et Sélima: poem imitated from the German; followed by Rêve d'un Musulman, translated from an Arab poet; and preceded by some reflections on the German poetry LEIPSIK. Paris, Jorry, 1769. With an engraved figure by Eisen. -PANCKOUKE]. Lettre de Don Carlos à Elisabeth de France, précédée d'un abrégé de leur histoire, et suivie d'un Passage de l'Aminte du Tasse, traduit en vers, et du Poëme de la Nuit, imité de Gessner. Paris: Le Jay, 1769. Second edition, largely original. Beautiful frontispiece by Gravelot. The précis de l'histoire de Don Carlos et d'Elisabeth de France is attributed to Sautreau de Marsy. There is also a free translation of a passage from Tasso's Aminte (O bella eta de l'ore) and La nuit, a poem imitated by Gessner. -DORAT, Claude-Joseph. D'ARNAUD. L'Isle merveilleuse. Illustrated edition by Eisen. Paris, 1768. Rare. Without the frontispiece. -DORAT]. LES CERISES et la double méprise, tales in verse. The Hague, 1769.
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